SECOND MOMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does second moment mean? 

• SECOND MOMENT (noun)
  The noun SECOND MOMENT has 1 sense:

1. the expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from the point of origin

  Familiarity information: SECOND MOMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SECOND MOMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from the point of origin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("second moment" is a kind of...):

moment (the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value)

Domain category:

statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)

 Context examples 

But when the second moment had passed, when she found every doubt, every solicitude removed, compared her situation with what so lately it had been,—saw him honourably released from his former engagement, saw him instantly profiting by the release, to address herself and declare an affection as tender, as constant as she had ever supposed it to be,—she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity;—and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)